The exciting start to this year's literature festival weekend will be provided by award-winning crime writer Oliver Bottini, who will read from his latest novel, "The Sum of All Things", on the third Friday evening in September.

About the book:
Spring 2018: In Duisburg, a man shoots himself in the early morning, in London another is driven to death by a mysterious car, on Capri everyone is talking about murder, but there is neither a body nor blood to be found at the crime scene. Frankfurt policewoman Vera Berg, who is mourning the death of her husband Zaid and has traveled to Capri to look for answers, knows that this cannot be a coincidence. What was he hiding from her? Was Erik, her husband's long-time friend and colleague, not murdered in his villa after all? And if not, where is he? And where is her daughter, who simply disappeared after her father's death?
Zaid, Freddy and Erik are university friends who wanted to make big money and whose share deals are in the all-too-popular gray area - until a public prosecutor becomes aware of them and everything gets out of hand.
Oliver Bottini masterfully tells the story of what unchecked greed can lead to: politically explosive and highly exciting.

About the author:
Oliver Bottini was born in 1965. He has received numerous awards for his novels, including the Radio Bremen Crime Fiction Prize, the Berlin "Krimifuchs", the Stuttgart Crime Fiction Prize and the German Crime Fiction Prize six times, most recently in 2022 for "Einmal noch sterben". DuMont also published "Der kalte Traum" (2012) and "Ein paar Tage Licht" (2014) - recently filmed by ARTE/ZDF under the title "Algiers Confidential" - as well as the crime novels about Freiburg detective Louise Bonì. Oliver Bottini lives with his family in Frankfurt am Main.

On the second evening of the late summer reading weekend, philosopher and author Eva von Redecker will be a guest at KniKi to present her latest non-fiction book "Dieser Drang nach Härte. On the new fascism".

About the book:
Eva von Redecker's in-depth and differentiated analysis makes it clear: There is a shift to the right going on around the world, authoritarian forces are gaining power and influence everywhere. And yet the eternal analogies to the time of National Socialism come to nothing: contemporary fascism has a new form that is not easy to recognize and even more difficult to explain.
In Redecker's groundbreaking analysis, its diffuse nature gains contour - and becomes vulnerable. It locates its core in the invocation of an unconditional claim to ownership, the defense of which goes over dead bodies. An illuminating and resistant book that sets solidarity against the rampant harshness of our time and exudes joy of thought.

About the author:
Eva von Redecker, born in 1982, is a philosopher and freelance author. From 2009 to 2019, she was a research assistant at Humboldt University and a visiting scholar at Cambridge University and the New School for Social Research in New York. In 2020/2021, she held a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship at the University of Verona, where she researched the history of property; in 2023/2024, she was a "Metropolschreiberin Ruhr".
Eva von Redecker deals with critical theory, feminism, criticism of capitalism and authoritarianism, she writes articles for "Die ZEIT", among others, publishes the column "Ohne Geländer" in "Philosophie Magazin" and can regularly be heard in radio and TV interviews. She organized the philosophical discussion series "Eva and the Apple" at Schauspiel Köln and talks to her guests about visions of the future and artificial intelligence in the "Machine Room of the Future" at Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg.
S. FISCHER recently published her books "Bleibefreiheit", which was shortlisted for the NDR Non-Fiction Prize, and "Revolution für das Leben. Philosophie der neuen Protestformen" (2020) and a foreword to the anniversary edition of the "Dialectic of Enlightenment". She grew up on an organic farm and now lives in rural Brandenburg.

Live radio play with Theater ex libris after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The performances by Theater ex libris have long since become an integral part of the annual Salzgitter Literature Festival. This September, the popular ensemble is bringing a classic of crime literature to the stage at the KniKi - arranged by them into another of their successful multimedia live radio plays: "Sherlock vs. Moriarty" - the last case of Sherlock Holmes based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The fifth chapter of the Sherlock Holmes series features an encounter with the "Napoleon of Crime". The combination of the short stories "The Permanent Patient", "The Bruce-Partington Plans" and "The Final Problem" creates a diabolical plot worthy of Holmes' great adversary Moriarty.

The performance of the extremely versatile narrator ensemble is complemented by a scenically coordinated image projection with live music, which also visually transports the audience to Victorian London.

- Live radio play with five actors
- Live music and image projection
- Duration: 120 minutes / one interval
- Awarded the "Blue Carbuncle" by the German Sherlock Holmes Society